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B.BBRNARD. GARMENT: V APPLICATION FILED DEG.13,1913.

1,123,224. Patented Jan.5,1915.

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B @m/MML W Atty BENJAMIN BERNARD, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

GARMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 5, 1915.

Application filed December 13, 1913. Serial No. 806,418.

- tute. the inner portion of a coat to give it form and support.

Coat fronts are usually made 3f felt pad ding secured by numerous lines of stitchin .to two layers of stiff fabric, such as b ckram, crash linen, or the like. The entirecoat front is cut to the form of the garment in which it is to be used. In the use of this kind of coat fronts, considerable difiiculty and annoyance result from so-called cockling, a term usedto indicate the wrinkling and distortion to which such coat fronts are subjected'after a very short period of use. v

The object of my invention is to provide a novel form of coat front which, while giving the desired form and support to the garment in which it is used, will not wrinkle or lose its smoothness -quite irrespective of the length of use. I accomplish this object, mainly, by securing the felt padding'to a separate su porting layer of suitable material, and t en by marginal stitching only securing the paddingand supporting layer to the fairly stiff inner fabric which lies immediately adjacent the coat lining:

Anillustrative embodiment of the invention is shown in the accompanying drawing,

wherein Figure 1 ,isa front elevational view of the improved coat front; Fig. 2 is a rear elevational view thereof; and Fig. 13- is a. horizontal sectional view on the line -3-3 of Fig. 1.

. Referring by reference characters to the several figures of the drawing, 10 denotes a suitably shaped pad of felt or other appropriate material, and 11 denotes a supporting layer for the felt pad, the supporting layer 11 being made of crash or the like and of substantially the same shape and size as the pad 10. As shown particularly in Figs. 2 and-3; the pad 10 is secured to the supporting layer 11 by a plurality of lines of stitches 12'; At 13 I have indicated a strip of felt, attached to the pad 10, and which passes under the arm and up to the shoulder of the coat.

The pad 10 and its supporting layer 11 aresuitably secured to the inner fabric 14, which is substantially of the shape and size of one half of the coat into which it is placed. The means for securing the pad to the inner layer, 14 consists of .aline of stitching 15 which, as will be best seen from Figs. 1 and 3, is run at or about the mar in only of the pad, but does not extend nwardly toward the body of the pad to any extent. Inthis way, while the pad is firmly secured to the inner f.'bric-14, sufficient play or movement between these two parts is allowed to permit the pad to adjust itself to the proper shape without cockling i. e. without becomingwrinkled or distorted. -It will be noted that the stitchin 15 extends only along -the two longer e ges and the bottom edgeof the pad 10 and supporting layer 11, and that the upper edges. of these members are not secured to the inner layer 14. I have found by extensive trials, that by this construction I secure perfect smoothness of the garment, and eliminate all tend ency of the coat front to cockle What I claim is A garment coat front,comprising a padding of a size and shape to extend rom the plurality of lines of stitching connecting" said padding and supporting fabric together, an inner fabric layer extending'beyond the lower and one side edge of both the padding and supporting fabric, said inner fabric layer being of the size and shape of one half of the entire front of the garment and adapted to face toward the wearer In testimony whereof I have afiixed. my of the g ml'ment the supporting fabric ensignature inpresence of two Witnesses. gagmg sand lnner tabuc, and stltchmg ex- E AMI ER ARD ten dmg about the lnargmal portlons only of r J N B smcl padchng and send supportlng fabrl c wltnesses r and counectmg the same Wlth sand lnner IJOSEPH TCI-I1LOWITZ, fabrle. THEODORE NITZY.

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